Full-Stack Founding Engineer - BizTrip.ai

About Us:BizTrip.ai is reimagining corporate travel through the power of artificial intelligence. We are redesigning the corporate travel experience from the ground up, and we're looking for passionate innovators who want to transform an industry ripe for disruption. Our founders have deep roots in the travel industry, plus experience at some of the best Silicon Valley companies including Stripe and Heroku. BizTrip was co-founded by Andrew Ng and is backed by his AI Fund.
The Opportunity:We're seeking a Founding Engineer who will help architect and build our AI-powered travel platform from the ground up. This is a unique opportunity to shape core technical decisions and establish the foundation of a product that will redefine corporate travel. You'll work alongside our CTO, Head of Design, and Head of AI Research to bring our vision to life.
As one of our first engineering hires, you'll have extraordinary ownership and influence across our entire stack. You'll tackle complex technical challenges while helping to establish the engineering culture and practices that will scale with our growth. This role offers the rare chance to be both a builder and an architect in a mission-driven startup environment.
The Ideal Candidate:The ideal person for this role is someone who cares about craft, but also knows how to balance that with the speed and results required to succeed at a startup. The modern startup world moves incredibly quickly, and so we will have to use every tool and trade-off at our disposal to match that speed. You should be able talk in depth about how AI tools will enhance your development capabilities and speed, while understanding the limitations and downsides.
Beyond speed, you should be passionate about creating exceptional user experiences and unafraid to work across the stack to get something working. You should have a strong belief that great design and UX separates the great products from the average ones.
We are a group of creators and builders, and one of our goals is to build a great company. We are doing that, in person, in San Francisco, and we are looking for people that want to work together, in the office. That said, we will resist any “N days in office” rules. Everyone deserves flexibility and we fully expect folks will spend time working outside the office. We will consider full-time remote for truly exceptional candidates.
As one of our early hires, you will play a critical role in shaping the culture of our company. With that in mind, we don’t suffer brilliant jerks, slow-witted jerks, nor an unsustainable hustle p0rn culture. We plan to win our market, and we expect to work hard, as a team, to do it.

What You Will Do:

• Design, develop, and deploy key features of our AI travel agent across the full technology stack, but especially the front-end.
• Work with our head of design to implement a new class of travel planning experience. “Good UX for AI applications” is an area demanding innovation and one in which you will play a key role.
• Work closely with AI engineering to drive the requirements and interactions to build a truly intelligent system.
• Make crucial technical decisions that balance speed, quality, and scalability.
• Help establish our engineering culture and contribute to technical strategy.
• Work at the speed required to win in the fast moving landscape of AI technology.

What We're Looking For:

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Software engineering degree.
• Good expertise in front-end app development (JavaScript/TypeScript, React/Svelte, NextJS, modern CSS). Some experience with mobile development is a bonus.
• Some experience and proficiency in backend development (esp. Python).
• Experience building and shipping production-quality software products.
• Strong communication abilities and collaborative mindset.
• Comfort with ambiguity and ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment.
• A very strong interest in GenAI, AI tools, and some understanding of the technical foundations of LLMs.

Why Join Us:

• Pioneer a revolution in how millions of business travellers experience corporate travel.
• Shape next-generation AI interfaces that redefine user-machine interaction.
• Strategic equity ownership and competitive compensation.
• Directly influence our product roadmap and strategic direction.
• Help build and nurture a world-class engineering team from the ground up.
• A chance to build the best company you ever worked for.

At AI Fund, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. AI Fund believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.